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Latent Space
Latent Space

Messy flip-the-script cli-fi about AI, animism, national security liberals, overlapping polycrisis, and the strangest of bedfellows.

2023

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Paco Nathan
Paco Nathan

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derwen

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Natural Language Processing in Python

Practical techniques for preparing text for building knowledge graphs, custom search, content recommenders, and other areas of AI applications… Several years ago, I taught a popular course about NLP in Python, through O’Reilly Media and at various tech conferences. Our field has changed so dramatically, and while this page has…

Machine Learning

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Natural Language Processing in Python
Natural Language Processing in Python
Machine Learning

4 min read


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Knowledge Technologies

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Graph Thinking

A kind of cognitive framework called graph thinking is circulating through the KGC community. So let’s explore this notion. Also, let’s suspend any discussion about technology, for the moment, and talk about cognition. Among the people who use knowledge graphs effectively, how do they conceptualize the problem? Ostensibly, when we…

Knowledge Graph

6 min read

Graph Thinking
Graph Thinking
Knowledge Graph

6 min read


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Towards Data Science

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Visualizing Geospatial Data in Python

Open source tools and techniques for visualizing data on custom maps — Throughout the global pandemic, many people have spent lots of time viewing maps that visualize data. Important data. People who work in data science are probably seeing increased needs to work with geospatial data, especially for visualizations. There are increased needs to understand metrics about geographic regions, to analyze supply…

Python

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Visualizing Geospatial Data in Python
Visualizing Geospatial Data in Python
Python

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derwen

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Hylburt-Speys

Posting for a friend who doesn’t want to be linked directly, for obvious reasons. Part interview, part summary analysis. While I cannot verify details, the story had drawn me in. Not that I’m saying it’s a good direction, nor that I agree with the approach necessarily. …

Fiction

34 min read

Hylburt-Speys
Hylburt-Speys
Fiction

34 min read


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derwen

·Jun 21

Visual Missives from the Latent Space, 2023-06-20

“AI 100” — TL;DR: Congrats to the Argilla.io team ranking today in the 2023 CB Insights AI 100; also, join our LLM CrowdEval challenge: https://argilla.io/blog/argilla-cbinsights–100-ai-companies-nlp-annotation/ https://twitter.com/argilla_io/status/1670757399123177474 Argilla.io ranked in the “AI 100” selected by CBInsights as “The most promising artificial intelligence startups of 2023.” This was based on a pool of over…

AI

8 min read

Visual Missives from the Latent Space, 2023-06-20
Visual Missives from the Latent Space, 2023-06-20
AI

8 min read


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derwen

·Jun 12

Visual Missives from the Latent Space, 2023-06-11

“Show, Don’t Tell.” — TL;DR: Argilla 1.9.0 provides fine-tuning for open source language models, with your own data, leveraging your own experts through human-in-the-loop features; plus multi-aspect feedback for multi-modal content in both generative and predictive use cases. Argilla also recently passed 2000 stars on GitHub! https://argilla.io/blog/argilla-for-llms/ https://docs.argilla.io/en/latest/guides/llms/practical_guides/practical_guides.html

AI

8 min read

Visual Missives from the Latent Space, 2023-06-11
Visual Missives from the Latent Space, 2023-06-11
AI

8 min read


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derwen

·May 22

Visual Missives from the Latent Space, 2023-05-22

Visualizing missives from our latent space, with the help of machine learning, as of 2023-05–22. — Approximately 75 million voters in the US support having a civil war, where the far-right can settle the matter once and forever about having heteronormative male caucasian conservative christian nationalists rule over all. Put ten people in a room, and four of them want a war. What if they got…

AI

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Visual Missives from the Latent Space, 2023-05-22
Visual Missives from the Latent Space, 2023-05-22
AI

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derwen

·May 7

The Corporate Body: Liber 118 U.S. 394

First appeared in Signum, 2001–08–30, albeit the publisher omitted footnotes. Reinserted herein. There’s an element of irony, given so much subsequent Citizens United dispute about corporate personhood a decade later. Liber 118 U.S. 394 I’d like to tell you an almost-completely-true story. …

Politics

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The Corporate Body: Liber 118 U.S. 394
The Corporate Body: Liber 118 U.S. 394
Politics

22 min read


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derwen

·Aug 16, 2022

Visual Missives from the Latent Space 2022-08-15

Visualizing missives from our latent space, with the help of machine learning, as of 2022-08-15. — OANN managed to piss-off even the relatively libertarian-aligned hacker audience at Def Con.

AI

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Visual Missives from the Latent Space 2022-08-15
Visual Missives from the Latent Space 2022-08-15
AI

3 min read


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derwen

·Jul 6, 2021

Sense and Scalability

In an era of AI adoption in industry, stark contrasts in our thinking begin to show about how we leverage computing, data, and inference. This article considers graph technologies in the context of business: enhancing human thinking and enabling data exploration, especially among teams of domain experts augmented by AI…

Knowledge Graph

17 min read

Sense and Scalability
Sense and Scalability
Knowledge Graph

17 min read

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